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Dioscoreales

 

Family: Afrothismiaceae1

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Afrothismia baerae Cheek (2003)   2003 or before  Shimba Hills National Reserve, Kenya Missing Access
Afrothismia pachyantha Schlechter   1905 Mt. Cameroon & Mt. Kupe, Cameroon Missing Access

1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.10.523343v1.full.pdf

 

Family: Burmanniaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Burmannia indica Jonker   (rediscovered) India Rediscovered Access

Haplothismia exannulata

Airy Shaw

 

(rediscovered)

India

Rediscovered

Access

Oxygyne hyodoi

C. Abe & Akasawa (1989) Hina-no-bonbori 1988? Nishiumi-Cho, Minamiuwa-gun, Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan Missing Access

Oxygyne triandra

Schlechter

 

?

Cameroon

Extinct or extinct in the wild

Access

Thismia americana

N.Pfeiff., 1914

Banded trinity

1913 or 1916

Illinois, USA

Extinct

Access

Thismia caudata

Maas & H.Maas

 

(rediscovered)

Brazil

Rediscovered

Access

Thismia clavigera

(Becc.) F. v. M.

 

(rediscovered)

Malaysia, Borneo

Rediscovered

Access

Thismia fungiformis

(Taub. ex Warm.) Maas & H.Maas

 

?

Brazil

Missing

Access

Thismia kobensis

Suetsugu, 2018

 

(rediscovered)

Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Honshū, Japan

Rediscovered

Access

Thismia macahensis

(Taub. ex Warm.) Hatus.

 

?

Brazil

Invalid (synonym)

Access

Thismia neptunis

Beccari, 1878

 

(rediscovered)

Sarawak, Malaysia

Rediscovered

Access

Thismia tuberculata

Hatus.

 

24 September 1972

Mount Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture / Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan

Missing

Access

 

 

Family: Dioscoreaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Dioscorea brownii Schinz   (rediscovered) South Africa Rediscovered Access

Dioscorea buchananii undatiloba

(Baker) Wilkin, 2015

 

1921

Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Missing

Access

Dioscorea elephantipes

(L'Hér.) Engl.

 

(rediscovered)

Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Rediscovered

Access

Dioscorea inopinata

Prain & Burkill

 

(rediscovered)

Thailand

Rediscovered

Access

Dioscorea lepcharum

Prain & Burkill

 

(rediscovered)

Arunachal Pradesh, India Pradesh, India

Rediscovered

Access

Rajania prestoniensis

R.Knuth, 1924

 

14 November 1914

Cuba

Missing

Access

 

Family: Nartheciaceae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Narthecium montanum (Small) Grey Appalachian yellow asphodel ? North Carolina, USA Extinct Access

 

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